Dubnow, S. M.
JEWISH HISTORY: AN ESSAY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORYPublisher: The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1903. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover Publisher's full burgundy cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine and cover. 12mo. 184 pp. Former owner's name in pencil on ffep, otherwiuse unmarked. hinges starting, head and heel of spine lightly frayed. VERY GOOD. Chapters are entitled: (I) The Range of Jewish History; (II) The Content of Jewish History; (III) The Significance of Jewish History; (IV) The Historical Synthesis; (V) The Primary or Biblical Period; (VI) The Secondary or Spiritual-Political Period; (VII) The Tertiary Talmudic or National-Religious Period; (VIII) The Gaonic Period, or The Hegemony of the Oriental Jews; (IX) The Rabbinic-Philosophical Period, or the Hegemony of the Spanish Jews (980-1492); (X) The Rabbinic-Mystical Period, or the Hegemony of the German-Polish Jews; (XI) The Modern Period of Enlightenment (The Nineteenth Century); and (XII) The Teachings of Jewish History. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Philosophy of History by G. W. F. Hegel. Translated by J. SibreePublisher: New York, Collier, 1902.. 569 p. 22 cm. "Philosophy of history is an area of philosophy concerning the eventual significance, if any, of human history. Furthermore, it speculates as to a possible teleological end to its development—that is, it asks if there is a design, purpose, directive principle, or finality in the processes of human history... Hegel argued that history is a constant process of dialectic clash" From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy. Stock# 44,332. Good+, spine worn / no dj.

Meyerhoff, Hans, ed.
The Philosophy of History in Our Time: An AnthologyPublisher: Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1959 1st ed.. 350pp. paperback: near Fine [ink name; else nrF] A selection of the writings of some two dozen major 20th century historians and philosophers ranging from Collingwood and Croce to Alan Bullock and Reinhold Neibuhr.

Spengler, Oswald, 1880-1936. Atkinson, Charles Francis, translator.
The Decline of the West. Form and Actuality. Authorized Translation with Notes by Charles Francis Atkinson.Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, NY, MCMXLVI [1946]. Two volumes: xiv, [4], 428, xxxi p., 2 folding tables; 507, xxxii p. Der Untergang des Abendlandes, Gestalt und Wirklichkeit. The first edition was 1917; the revised edition, 1922; the first American edition, 1926. This enormous expression of cultural philosophy, originated in 1912 in a draft completed before the outbreak of the first world war, proposes that Western-- Faustian-- culture has reached a peak and is in decline. To document his thesis, Spengler drew from various cultures in a completely ahistorical manner to show parallel declines. The work is as rish as The Anatomy of Melancholy or the novels of Joyce, and almost as fictional. Lots of either/or; it sounds splendid. A passage at random: "Thus, musically as otherwise, the castle and the cathedral are distinct. The cathedral is music and the castle makes music. The one begins with theory, the other with impromptu; it is the distinction between waking consciousness and living existence, between the spiritual and the knightly singer." Stimulating and nonsensical. Black cloth stamped in gold; spines faded;